This phrase came to me when I woke up this morning. I have no idea what it means, but it sounds interesting. So…let’s go exploring. It...

Gordon Lightfoot is one of those rare individuals who resides in the top echelon of his profession. It takes a huge deposit of raw...

Jim Brickman at the Los Angeles Gracie Awards in 2013 Jim Brickman collaborated with Tom Douglas to write “The Gift.” Jim wrote the...

When Jim Brickman began taking piano lessons at the age of five, his first teacher reported to the boy’s parents that he showed little...

Don McLean released his iconic album, “American Pie,” in 1971. The title song epitomizes the era of the nineteen sixties. A famous lyric...

“True Colors” is a song with legs. It started out as a song written for a mother in a traditional ballad format. Billy Steinberg and Tom...

Time After Time is a Cyndi Lauper song. I’ve never been a big fan of her music, but that only means it doesn’t resonate with me in...

In these troubling times, it seems like the world could go off a cliff at any moment. I remember what it was like in the nineteen-sixties...

This is the prologue to the new edition of “Three Days to Darkness.” I’ve extensively rewritten the original novel (first published in...

“Fields of Gold” is one of Sting’s most famous songs. It is a stunning and thoughtful track about the journey of commitment. The song...

A photographic interpretation of the Kate Wolf song “Muddy Roads.” Visit http://www.davidgittlin.net  for the full post titled “Through...

I choose to wander in sunlight to avoid the riptide of darkness threatening to engulf our world. I prefer to see and hear beauty. I...

“Lay me Down Easy” is technically a blues song. To me, the song sounds upbeat with a whisper of the blues in the background. And there’s...

Six years ago, I attended a seminar presented by Saniel Bonder titled “The Sun in Your Heart is Rising–Activating Your Embodied...

Are you stuck in the land of sadness? Do you always come back to this all-too-familiar place, no matter what you do to get out?...

The next step isn’t always clear. What an understatement. Motivated people always know where they are going, the voice in my head tells...

Go beyond the mundane mutterings of mind I tell myself Into a broader perspective Into a deeper reservoir of peace and love within Dive...

To say there is a lot going on these days is an understatement. To say most of it is very troubling will not shock anyone. To ask, “What...

I downloaded this image randomly because I had no idea what to write about. Let’s see if we can have some fun with wordplay. Airplanes...

I’m taking a ten-week online course about awakening to consciousness. One of the teachers in the course made some statements in a video...